Comment by esics6A

No it's not real engineering at all but a different thing altogether. Engineering is the application of hard sciences like chemistry, physics and biology to solve real world problems. Software development can be part of what an engineer does to solve that problem but it's not engineering in itself. Software "engineering" is actually applied mathematics particularly logic to program a computer to complete tasks organized as algorithms. This is why some algorithms and functions in software can be proved via mathematical proofs.